And as you may have divined from the above, it all began with Wally. This two-week story arc is a bonanza for us Wally fans. Though perhaps I shouldn't admit to being one. I often get in trouble when I tell people that Wally is one of my cultural heroes and role models. Nobody seems to know how to take it. (Hint: The way it was meant, maybe?)

It's not as if Wally never has ideas. He has ideas all the time. They aren't necessarily ideas that lead to leaps in productivity, and for that matter they aren't ideas that are likely to be pushed terribly hard -- remember who we're talking about. But he's going to get some mileage out of this idea. (Oops, after-the-fact spoiler alert!

Which impacts his erstwhile coworkers. (Note that the usually explosive Alice takes the news surprisingly calmly, while Asok's response is more true-to-form -- and it works out for him about as well as things usually do.)